Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that the Shlayer malware was the most widespread macOS threat in 2019.
In February, malware researchers at Carbon Black spotted a new strain of the Shlayer malware that was targeting MacOS versions from 10.10.5 up to 10.14.3.
The malware was posing as an Adobe Flash update and it was distributed through a large number of websites, fake or compromised legitimate domains.